So Odd a Mixture Medical * children coming to terms

* children coming to terms with conflicting emotions arising from fathers' imprisonment

he prefers the company of computers and his only friend

Despite the richness of the subject and the importance frequently ascribed to the phenomena of rhythm and timing in the arts

and that of the families she interviews

So Odd a Mixture Medical * children coming to termsAutism was not a recognised disorder in Jane Austen's lifetime, nor for well over a century after her death. However there were certainly people who had autism, and Phyllis Ferguson Bottomer proposes that Austen wrote about them, without knowing what it was that she was describing. So Odd a Mixture looks at eight seemingly diverse characters in Austen's classic novel, Pride and Prejudice, who display autistic traits. These characters five in the